"I've been scorned. I've been pissed off. I wrote Cry Me a River in two hours. I didn't plan on writing it. The feelings I had were so strong that I had to write it, and I translated my feelings into a form where people could listen and, hopefully, relate to it. People heard me and they understood it because we've all been there, "Pete Davidson's role model wrote.

Meanwhile, the Legendary Miss Britney Spears is cool like the other side of the pillow, man.

Britney was a much bigger person that he ever was after that. Also, the amount of slut-shaming and backlash she received after this point was wild. I feel like after this, Britney was in her ARTPOP/overexposed era. The public love was turning quick, all over some pasty white boy and America's hatred of any woman with power.

“the amount of slut-shaming and backlash she received after this point was wild”

That’s my biggest take away from this. This whole situation is misogyny in a nutshell and Justin could give two shits. Then look at what happened to Janet as Justin twiddled his thumbs and got to continue on in his life being actual garbage. Fuck him.

I've always been fan of both musically, this break up happened right at the height of my teenybopper "my idols can do no wrong" phase before I grew up and realised my faves could be problematic... and even back then I had to acknowledge that he was really vindictive. I still cringe when I hear that story abut how he called her being all conciliatory and casually used the conversation to manipulate her into signing off on the CMAR video

true but i always felt like it would've worked out better if she stood up for herself. no doubt she took the high road but by doing that, it allowed justin to control the narrative. but to her credit, i also think she was deeply hurt.

I think it has to do more with the fact that anything he releases anything Britney always gets brought up. Whereas Britney doesn’t him bring him up at all, so if she were write a book and mention him in passage…she wouldn’t be criticized like he is.